Celine Track’s followers could have motive to have a good time the primary week of November, with HBO having confirmed that the writer-director’s sophomore characteristic Materialists might be out there on streaming from November 7. Nonetheless, the 2025 summer time hit might be joined by Previous Lives, Track’s beautiful directorial debut from 2023, which secured Oscar nominations for Finest Image and Finest Authentic Screenplay.
Previous Lives is a soulful and devastating take a look at a romance which may have been, when childhood pals Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo) reconnect after 20 years aside, having been separated when Nora’s household emigrated from South Korea to the U.S. Following her astounding breakout success, A24 partnered with Track once more to provide one other unconventional romance in Materialists.
Previous Lives is leaving Netflix on November 1 and can grow to be out there on HBO Max the next day, a number of days forward of Materialists becoming a member of the streaming platform’s library. Materialists broke field workplace information this summer time, changing into Track’s highest-grossing film and one among A24’s highest-grossing motion pictures, starring Marvel trio Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal.
In distinction to Previous Lives, Materialists follows a materialistic Manhattan matchmaker (Johnson) who’s torn between a wealthy financier (Pascal) and her poor actor ex-boyfriend (Evans). Materialists didn’t attain the heights of Previous Lives’ crucial acclaim, and is nearly actually not going to get any nods within the 2026 Oscar nominations, however is nonetheless a strong follow-up from Track.
And Track’s two hit motion pictures being out there on the identical streaming platform inside a number of days of one another may result in a resurgence of appreciation for her total type of storytelling, somewhat than simply Materialists as a film. The 2 options are undoubtedly price evaluating, actually inspecting the characters’ emotions of remorse and materiality in relationships.
Previous Lives’ breakout star Greta Lee has garnered extra consideration just lately for Tron: Ares, with nobody complaining about her efficiency regardless of the film’s flaws. In the meantime, Track is working with A24 and HBO on a brand new e-sports drama sequence titled Harm. Whereas folks might miss her romantic drama motion pictures, she is going to nonetheless quickly be bringing a brand new impactful narrative to screens.
Previous Lives and Materialists might bolster one another and each grow to be success tales on HBO Max, resulting from how they naturally immediate audiences to look at the opposite movie after taking an opportunity on one. Following Materialists’ success this summer time, folks can and will revisit all of Track’s work as she strikes ahead with different genre-defining initiatives.
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June 2, 2023
- Runtime
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106 minutes
- Director
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Celine Track
- Writers
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Celine Track
- Producers
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Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler, David Hinojosa
